The Salt Lake County Republican Party’s communication direction will now serve in a more limited role after he came under fire last month for claiming that the suicide rate for Utah’s LGBTQ community may be high because people have too many sex partners.
That’s according to the county Chairman Scott Miller, who sent a statement to members of the State Central Committee on Sunday that said he “considers this matter closed."
“As your chairman and according to our bylaws, I am the spokesperson for the Salt Lake County Republican Party,” Miller wrote in the email. “I never intended and Dave never assumed that he was the spokesperson for our party.